Contributors to Volume 30

Contributors to Volume 30 A. Owen Aldridge is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana. He was the founder of the journal Comparative Literature Studies and was among the founders of ASECS. Among his many books, those most pertinent to the present essay are Early American Literature: A Comparatist Approach (Princeton, 1982) and Thomas Paine s American Ideology (Delaware, 1984). Three collections of essays have been gathered in his honor, Deism, Masonry, and Enlightenment (Delaware, 1987), Aesthetics and the Literature of Ideas (Delaware, 1990), and Crosscurrents in the Literatures of Asia and the West (Delaware, 1997). Scott Black is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University. He is currently working on the development of the essay as a genre in the contexts of eighteenth-century aesthetics and the emergence of a sphere of social relations. Jenny Davidson is an Assistant Professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Former managing editor of The Yale Journal of Criticism, she is currently completing a manuscript titled "Hypocrisy, Politics, and Politeness, 1688-1814." She is also writing a historical novel about Jonathan Wild. John Bryce Jordan, a doctoral candidate in dance history and theory at the University of California, Riverside, studies and performs postmodern and eighteenth-century dance. He is the assistant editor of Continuous Replay: The Photographs ofArnie Zane, edited by Jonathan Green (MIT Press, 1999). Elisabeth Krimmer is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Mount Holyoke College. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts. Her research interests focus on eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury German women writers. She has published articles on Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Bettina Brentano von Arnim, Charlotte von Stein, Sophie La Roche, Frederike Helene Unger, and Leontine Sagan. She is currently finishing a book on cross-dressing in eighteenth-century literature and culture . 289 290 / Contributors Laura Laffrado is Professor of American Literature and Director of Graduate Studies at Western Washington University. She is the author of Hawthorne s Literature for Children (Georgia, 1992). She is currently at work on a book on gender and genre in early American literature. Juliette Merritt is a Lecturer of English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Her article on Eliza Haywood was originally presented at the 1998 ASECS meeting. An earlier essay on Haywood, '"That Devil Curiosity which Too Much Haunts the Minds of Women': Eliza Haywood's Female Spectators" was published in LUMEN (1997). Both articles form part of the book she is revising for publication, "Beyond Spectacle: Eliza Haywood's Female Spectators." Katharine M. Morsberger is an independent scholar living in Claremont, California, who has published numerous articles and reviews on topics ranging from John Locke to John Steinbeck, from Dryden's and Pope's translations of Chaucer to Christopher Isherwood's and Don Bachardy's teleplay Frankenstein: The True Story. With Robert E. Morsberger, she is the author of a biography, Lew Wallace: Militant Romantic. Her doctorate is from the University of California, Riverside. Mitzi Myers teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published extensively on Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and historical children's literature and pedagogy. As co-editor of the twelve-volume edition of Maria Edgeworth's selected works, she has assumed special responsibility for the volumes treating of the adult novel Belinda (1801) and Practical Education (1798) as well as the tales for children and young adults. She recently edited a special issue of EighteenthCentury Life titled Ireland 1798-1998: From Revolution to Revisionism and Beyond (1998). David Paxman, an Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, has published on eighteenth-century British poetry, aesthetics, prose fiction, and intellectual history in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philological Quarterly, Modern Philology, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Restoration. He is currently studying regional literary cultures in England. Cynthia Richards is an Assistant Professor of English at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Currently working on a book entitled "Radical Collaborations: Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Contemporaries," she has previously published on Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood. Contributors I 291 G. Gabrielle Starr is Assistant Professor of English at New York University. She is at work on a book of genre history, "The Novel and...